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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files? by myself248 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @05:48PM (#24358571)
> Unlike HTTP, you get reasonable retry behavior on network hiccups

Seriously. Zmodem/resume was doing better in 1986.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files? by arsome on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @06:54PM (#24359148)
wget -c, it ain't hard.
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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files? by asveikau on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @09:02PM (#24359899)
You need to notice the connection died and do that manually, or think ahead and have your script do it in a loop. A bt client already has the reconnect logic. And it will hash the contents to make sure it worked correctly.
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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files? by oasisbob on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @07:34PM (#24359421)
The problem isn't the clients.

The HTTP server needs to provide optional support for range requests on that resource. (RFC 7233) Not all do.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your favorite method of sending large files? by arsome on Thursday September 03, 2020 @08:37AM (#24363390)
Every major webserver supports resume.
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